In 1945, when Charlie Swart was serving in the occupied Japan, he began to have problems with alcohol. He was arrested several times for driving drunk, found unconscious at the door of his apartment, whiskey and garlic were constantly ripped from him. However, Charlie claimed that he practically did not drink, and his wife, who secretly marked the level of fluid in the bottles at home, confirmed his words.

Charlie went to various doctors with his problem, but no one could find anything. It was obvious that alcohol somehow appeared in his body, but what exactly - no one could understand. Charlie himself interrupted all medical literature in search of similar cases (after the army he arranged to work in the PIA department of the Colorado Association of Doctors), but found nothing. Many doctors believed that he was able to get drunk somehow even in the hospital and even Charlie himself for a time was not sure that it was not the case.

In the 1960s, Charlie went on a high-protein diet to lose weight. Attacks of unexplained alcoholism have become significantly less frequent. His doctor could not explain why it was so, and it was only later that Charlie understood that it was not a large amount of protein that was important, but a low amount of carbohydrates.

Once, in the 1970s, he had dinner with a representative of a pharmaceutical company and shared his problem. He said he had seen a similar case in medical literature and promised to send him an article. He actually sent the article, but it turned out that his memory failed and the article was not medical, but in the Time magazine from 1959. It was about a Japanese man who also proved to everyone that he wasn’t drinking, but at the same time regularly looked drunk. Japanese doctors conducted a lot of tests on it and found the only health problem - yeast infection in the intestines. After a course of anti-drought drugs, his symptoms of alcoholism disappeared.

Charlie immediately went to the doctors and they actually found him having a yeast infection. The first therapy was unsuccessful - yeast gained resistance to mycostatine, but in 1975 with the help of more powerful agents yeast from Charlie was still poisoned. Thirty years of drunkenness ended.

Yeast infections are common in humans, but in this case Charlie was "lucky" and he got a strain in which the process of sugar metabolism was disrupted. Instead of their complete oxidation, yeasts stopped at the alcohol stage. As a result, after eating any carbohydrates, Charlie received a dose of alcohol.